From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2012-03-17T05:53:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Write to console at same locations

Pai-Hung Chen wrote in post #1051857:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to write multiple lines to the console (STDOUT) at the
> same locations? For example, I'd like to show % progress for several
> tasks at the same time as follows:
>
> Task #1:  20%
> Task #2:  75%
> Task #3:  60%
> ..
>
> That is, I only want to update the % numbers without outputting
> additional lines/scrolling.
>

Either you can use ANSI escape codes to reposition the cursor 
(non-portable to Windows) or you can uses ncurses.

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